Did anyone think the hits would be coming this hard, this many, and this quick? It might have been better had the Democrats just let Trump have his 2nd term back to back, because he and his people had plenty of time to get this ready
Trump Ends 1965 Executive Order from Lyndon Johnson that Began Affirmative Action in U.S. Govt
President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Wednesday rescinding President Lyndon B. Johnson’s Executive Order 11246, which mandated government contractors take affirmative action.
The order more broadly ceases diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) “discrimination in the federal workforce, and in federal contracting and spending,” the White House noted.
The federal government’s hiring practices will now be merit-based, with employees being rewarded for “individual initiative, skills, performance, and hard work.”
Would he have done this if he had back to back terms? Most likely not. It really wasn’t on the radar. Now you have Godzilla in the china shop
Millions of federal DEI employees placed on leave as Trump’s administration dismantles programs
One of President Trump’s first executive orders targets millions of federal employees working on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) programs and initiatives.
“Our country is going to be based on merit again,” said President Trump.
A memo from the U.S. Office of Personnel Management ordered leaders to place all staff working in DEI roles on paid leave by 5 p.m. on Wednesday.
In President Trump’s order, he says that DEI policies violate Federal civil rights laws and “undermine the traditional American values of hard work, excellence, and individual achievement in favor of an unlawful, corrosive, and pernicious identity-based spoils system.”
For the most part, these are people who really do not do anything to help American citizens nor the mission of the agency. Would Trump have gotten to this in a back to back 2nd term? BTW, the rumor is that they were all fired, but, no, most reports show they were put on paid leave, and we’ll have to see what happens with them now.
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UPDATE: a source at State Department tells me the federal workers there are totally melting down after @secrubio ordered an end to remote work and ordered all employees back to work in person https://t.co/Zv9UsTcyuL
— Matthew Boyle (@mboyle1) January 22, 2025
In the 2003 decision Grutter v Bollinger Associate Justice Sandra Day O’Connor said that Affirmative Action plans had to come to an end, that the ‘exception’ the Supreme Court allowed to the 14th Amendment required an end date, and that the Court anticipated that, 25 years from then, they’d expect to see all accomplished, and Affirmative Action ended.
Well, we’re 3½ years early in general terms, but the Court ended Affirmative Action in colleges, including private colleges, in Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. President and Fellows of Harvard College, in June of 2023. If 45 years of Affirmative Action — 25 from Bakke to Grutter and twenty from Grutter to Students for Fair Admissions — didn’t ‘fix’ the problems, how much more time would?
The Federal Government is prohibited by the Constitution from treating people differently based on race. More, in one of his last acts, former President Biden — and I do so love typing former President Biden, or, to paraphrase the Munchkins, “Ding, dong, the dunce is gone!” — tried to declare the Equal Rights Amendment ratified, even though it wasn’t. But, to declare that means that the dummkopf from Delaware was saying that any sex-based advantages being given in DEI were also gone.
The Federal government, and all of the government-based institutions need to follow the requirements of the 14th Amendment and treat people equally. Candidates for admissions and employment should be treated based upon their qualifications and abilities, not to which Accredited Victim Group™ they belonged.
Teach chortled: Now you have Godzilla in the china shop
Actually, a good description of Big Donnie! Even Teach recognizes the threat.
Mr Teach tries to make the argument that Big Donnie would have been less horrible if America had allowed him to stay in the White House for 2021-2025.
Of course, there is no legal mechanism for allowing a bigly defeated candidate to stay in office for four more years. It’s an especially weak argument that if the defeated candidate wins four years later that he would be more vindictive and selfish than he was their first four years!!
Blue Lives Matter! Nope, not in TrumpWorld!
Call the little White Christian wifeyy, Rimjob has just dropped another load in his nappies.
Most government agencies still have their EEO offices and those function just like DEI. They are mostly established by statute though, so not going way right away. Have to leave something to work on for next year.
Best comment of the day.
Sure, especially the uber vaxed, mask wearing goldbricks who find it troubling that they may have to pretend to work under actual supervision instead of faking it from Starbucks.
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“Trump Merit Based Hiring And Rewards In Government…”
Government service has the reputation that it does because many of the government agencies don’t do anything and don’t need to do anything, so assessing employees based on merit is a fantasy of HR people and they start grading things like “support of agency values” which is code for “supports DEI”
What I mean to say is that “merit based” is a ridiculous standard for employees at an agency that does nothing, like VOA, Department of Education, 85% of the USDA. We don’t really want government employees being very meritorious except at jobs that are fully needed.
Before we created the Department of Education, America had schools. Children got educated. Since then, every metric of education has declined. It’s not because the employees at the DoE are not “working hard enough”. It’s because they are.